Primetime Ratings: ‘Big Brother’ Leads CBS to Victory

CBS seized top honors in the Thursday (July 12) ratings race, as Big Brother led the net to a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That beat the 0.8/4 that Fox put up.

CBS aired Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon reruns, then Big Brother (pictured, top) did a 1.5, up a tenth from last week. It was followed by a SWAT repeat.

Fox had The Four: Battle For Stardom at a flat 0.8 across its prime.

NBC was good for a 0.6/3. Little Big Shots slid 13% to 0.7 and two episodes of Marlon did a pair of 0.6s, flat with last week. Law & Order: SVU closed out prime for NBC.

Telemundo rated a 0.6/3 with a strong showing for El Senor de los Cielos.

ABC was at 0.5/3. The Gong Show rated a 0.5 and Match Game a 0.6, both down a tenth of a point, then Take Two grew 25% to 0.5.

Univision was at 0.4/2.

The CW did a 0.2/1 with repeats.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.